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I have been enjoying a chat based AI coding modality. I built some tooling that gets rid of the need to cut & paste code between the chat and your files. This m
by anotherpaulg 3y ago
I have been enjoying a chat based AI coding modality. I built some tooling that gets rid of the need to cut & paste code between the chat and your files. This makes chatting about code changes much more ergonomic. My tool also integrates directly with git, which provides a safety net. It’s easy to undo changes if the AI does something silly.
Here are some chat transcripts that give a flavor of what it’s like to code with AI this way:
https://aider.chat/examples/ https://aider.chat/examples/
My tool is open source, and currently only works if you have a gpt-4 api key.
- tyree731 3y agoVery cool. I’ve been using ChatGPT quite manually for similar effect here, though I’m often using it for fragments of code less than whole projects/files, given I’m often dealing with an existing codebase.
- anotherpaulg 3y agoA lot of my recent work has been focused on making this chat style coding work better with larger, pre-existing codebases. I wrote up some notes on one effective approach: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/docs/ctags.md https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/docs/ctags....